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May 27, 2011

Controlling Home Power Usage

Under the direction of Professor Bahram Shafai, a team of ECE capstone students, developed a breaker box that monitors a home’s electricity usage to let users set priorities of when things should be used.

Electrical & Computer Engineering

May 24, 2011

Voice-Controlled Movements

A group of ECE capstone students, under the direction of Professor Bahram Shafai, designed a voice controlled wheelchair that can navigate around obstacles and prevent the chair from going near stairwells.

Electrical & Computer Engineering

May 03, 2011

Staying One Step Ahead

ECE and CCS Associate Professor Engin Kirda is focused on how to keep applications secure from the latest viruses and cyber-security threats.

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Apr 22, 2011

Seniors win Prestigious NSF Fellowships

Dana Peck, BSCE’11 and Sarah Brown, BSEE’11 received NSF Graduate Research Fellowships that recognize outstanding students in NSF-supported STEM disciplines who are pursuing research-based MS and PhD degrees.

Civil & Environmental Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Apr 06, 2011

FY12 TIER 1 Award Recipients

28 COE faculty and affiliates were recipients of FY12 TIER 1 Interdisciplinary Research Seed Grants for 18 different research projects.

Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Mar 11, 2011

Harris Selected as Klein Lecturer

ECE Professor Vincent Harris has been selected as this year’s Robert D. Klein University Lecturer. This award honors faculty members who have contributed to their field of study and share the fruits of that scholarship with the University and the general public.

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Mar 01, 2011

COE Alum Modernizes GPS Technology

John Betz, a ME'79, PhD'84 graduate in Electrical Engineering, has contributed to modernizing the Navstar Global Positioning System (GPS) and other Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSSs).

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Feb 22, 2011

Measuring Interatomic Distances

ECE Professor Lee Makowski has received a $280K NIH grant to develop MADMAX, a Multi-wavelength Anomalous Diffraction using Medium Angle X-ray solution scattering, for the precise measurement of conformational changes in proteins.

Bioengineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering